{"id":2562,"date":"2013-02-13T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/02\/13\/question-of-day\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:20:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:20:59","slug":"question-of-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2562","title":{"rendered":"Question Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14249,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.investors.com\\\/ibd-editorials\\\/021213-644201-dhs-buys-7000-semiautomatic-assault-weapons.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20150821005950\\\/http:\\\/\\\/news.investors.com\\\/ibd-editorials\\\/021213-644201-dhs-buys-7000-semiautomatic-assault-weapons.htm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 01:39:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-30 22:55:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-30 22:55:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.investors.com\/ibd-editorials\/021213-644201-dhs-buys-7000-semiautomatic-assault-weapons.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The editorial staff at Investors Business Daily<\/a> have noticed the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s exceedingly large ammunition purchases as well as their solicitation for 7,000 select-fire personal defense weapons. It prompts them to ask this question.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>To what purpose is a civilian agency arming itself to the teeth at the<br \/>\nsame time the administration has been making war on the Second Amendment<br \/>\n and pushing for stricter gun control measures such as universal<br \/>\nbackground checks, while others, such as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo,<br \/>\nhint at outright confiscation?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;It is an interesting question and one that most in the mainstream media will continue to ignore.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The editorial staff at Investors Business Daily have noticed the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s exceedingly large ammunition purchases as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2027,2591],"class_list":["post-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dept-of-homeland-security","tag-investors-business-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8840,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions\/8840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}